Sleep Disturbances

What is Sleep Disturbances?

Sleep Disturbance is anytime you break the natural sleep cycle with a period of being awake. Sometimes you may be aware of it and others you may believe you slept soundly when in fact you may have experience many times throughout the night. Everyone experience sleep disturbance. It happens. It is a problem when it becomes continual and chronic affecting your quality of much-needed rest. There are over 40 different types of sleep disorders and are all categorized in three areas:

Lack of sleep

Disturbed sleep

Excessive sleep

Lack of Sleep and Sleep disturbances can go hand in hand. Lack of Sleep leans more to the inability to fall asleep such as insomnia whereas Disturbed Sleep is the lack of maintaining a consistent and constant sleep period. Some people experience both together. Sleep Disturbance can occur throughout the night without you even knowing it when you only partially wake or momentarily wake to adjust your position for example. Disturbance of Sleep can be caused by many different problems.

Disturbance of Sleep can be caused by many different problems such as:

Nightmares

Night Sweating

Sleep Walking

Sleep Talking

Need to go to the restroom

Stress, Anxiety and Worry – Overactive Mind “Chatter”

Allergies and Respiratory Problems

Hormonal Imbalance

Chronic Pain

Muscle Stiffness

Persistent Headaches

Inadequate Matress or Pillow Support

The lack of sleep can have a negative impact on energy, mood, concentration, and overall health.

In some cases, sleep disorders can be a symptom of another medical or mental health condition. These sleeping problems may eventually go away once treatment is obtained for the underlying cause. When sleep disorders aren’t caused by another condition, treatment normally involves a combination of medical treatments and lifestyle changes.

There are stages in your sleep that your body must go through to achieve a good night sleep, in fact there are 5. This cycles over and over throughout the night.